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When General (later President) Chiang Kai-shek marched out of Canton in 1926, taking the route or highway north to conquer all China, he was joined by 24 Chinese divisions, each known by its historic numeral and the honorable title Lo Chun ("Route Army"). Most famed is the Sze Chin Lo Chun ("19th Route Army") because of its battle against hopeless odds to defend Shanghai (TIME. March...
When Tuan reached Nanking he professed hostility to Japan (a necessary profession with Chinese public opinion at fury heat as it was last week), then went into a huddle with China's Generalissimo. Marshal Chiang Kaishek. A few hours later Peiping's "Young Marshal" flew down in his sumptuous private plane to Nanking, joined the huddle. If Tuan actually carried an offer from Japan- presumably an offer of peaceful settlement on a basis approximating the status quo-not a whisper of the terms leaked out. Meanwhile, however, the Japanese advance to occupy Jehol Province (TIME...
...China every War Lord is jealous of every other, and the Generalissimo is no exception. His reaction was to telegraph rebukes to both Han and Liu, ordering them to stop fighting, but supporting the rights of neither. Ineffectual Chiang's telegrams were ignored. But after 72 hours of the hottest fighting into which two Chinese armies have pitched for years, they did stop. There had been the usual Chinese deal, probably put over with the usual bribes...
Governor Han. apparently satisfied, withdrew with his forces to Tsinan and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could pretend that the "balance of power" in China had been maintained?by a deal. What next? Han, having much expanded his prestige by ousting Liu, may be expected to conspire with his honored guest in Shantung, the famed "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang. onetime master of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government at Nanking may expect to be wiped from the map while ancient glory is restored to PEKING...